Prevalence of healthcare-associated infections in long-term care facilities in Catalonia. VINCat Program.

Healthcare associated infections (HAI) in long-term care facilities in Europe

Introduction / objectives The HALT Project (HAI in European Long-Term Care Facilities) has been funded by the ECDC in 2009, to develop and implement a sustainable methodology to estimate the prevalence of infections and antimicrobial use, and to assess the status of infection control programmes in Europe. A pilot point prevalence survey (PPS) was conducted in November 2009 and an European wide ...

Author's response to reviews Title: Evaluation of the national surveillance system for point-prevalence of healthcare-associated infections in hospitals and in long-term care facilities for elderly in Norway, 2002-2008 Authors:

Prevalence of urinary colonization by extended spectrum-beta-lactamase Enterobacteriaceae among catheterised inpatients in Italian long term care facilities

Long Term Care Facilities (LTCFs) play a key role in guaranteeing care to patients in developed countries. Many patients, mostly elderly, access LTCFs at some time in their lives, and their healthcare pathways often require them to move back and forth between hospital and outpatient settings. These patterns bring about new challenges regarding infection control, especially healthcare associated...

Healthcare-associated infections in European long-term care facilities: how big is the challenge?

Editorials Healthcare-associated infections in European long-term care facilities: how big is the challenge? Citation style for this article: Suetens C. Healthcare-associated infections in European long-term care facilities: how big is the challenge?. At the same time, healthcare systems are striving for cost optimi-sation, which results, among other things, in shorter hospital stays and early ...

Prevalence and determinants associated with healthcare-associated infections in long-term care facilities (HALT) in the Netherlands, May to June 2010.

HAIs (healthcare-associated infections) are likely to become an increasing public health problem. Therefore, a point-prevalence study called HALT (Healthcare-associated infections in long-term-care facilities) was set up by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control to determine the prevalence, antibiotic use and determinants associated with HAIs. In the Netherlands, 10 nursing home...